Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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M~HOO OF COATING A 5UBSTRATE IN A FLUIDIZED BED
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a method of coating a sub-
s~rate in a fluidized bed. More particularly, thisinvention relates to a method of coating a substrate
which may have a high surface area in a fluidized
bed using coating source material which is fed into
the bed in condensed form.
2. Desori~tion of the Related Art
Processes to form films on substrates, e.g., chemi-
cal vapor deposition (CVD) processes, conventionally
transport the coating source material to the reactor
containing the substrate to be coated in a gaseous
or vapor, i.e., noncondensed, state comprising one
or more of the following constituents: ~a) a precur-
sor for the material to be deposited; (b) reducing,
oxidizing, or otherwise reacting gases; and (c)
inert carrier gases used for chemical transport
andlor heat and mass transfer. As these materials
enter the reactor, which i~ kept at a high tempera-
ture, reactions occur and products are formed which
deposit on the substrate surface.
While the different components of the coating system
are conventionally all introduced into the coating
rea~tor as gases or vapors, i~ the components are
solids or liquids at room temperature, they must
first be vaporized and then transported into the
reactor as vapors~ To control the rate of f~ed to
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the reactor, the vapor pressure and the flow rate
have to be carefully controlled.
Such careful control of vapor pressure, in turn re-
quires vaporizers with sophisticated thermal con-
trols, and heated feed lines from the vaporizers tothe reactor. Typically thermal baths are used to
maintain the temperature of the vaporizer within a
fraction of a degree. In addition, calibration runs
are needed, because the saturation of the carrier
gas and the control of flow are also sources of
error. When very precise compositions are required,
the control equipment and the need for constant
calibrations result in low productivity, low reli-
ability, and high equipment and production costs.
When relatively unstable molecules, such as organo-
metallics, are used ac coating precursors, a further
limitation occurs. Many of these molecules start
vaporizing and decomposing or polymerizing within a
narrow temperature range. To avoid decomposition or
polymerization in the evaporator, the temperature is
kept as low as possible, but this results in a very
low vapor pressure which, in turn, results in very
low deposition rates.
In any of these coating systems, the use of coating
source materials in gaseous or vapor (non-condensed)
form is particularly troublesome when attempting to
coat high surface area materials, e.g., very small
particles, because of the difficulty of feeding
large quantities o~ coating source material into the
reactor in the gaseous or vapor state.
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It would, however, be advantageous to provide an
economical film forming process that could avoid or
minimize the need for sophisticated, expensive, and
difficult to maintain evaporators, and the limita-
tions in operating conditions attendant with the useof such evaporators; and which would be capable of
quickly and thoroughly coating large and/or complex
surface area objects.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention comprises a process for coating a sub-
strate surface in a heated fluidized bed reactor
which comprises introducing one or more coating
source materials in a condensed state into a fluid-
ized bed reactor which is maintained at a tempera-
ture which is higher than the decomposition, and/or
vaporization and reaction, temperature of the one or
more coating source materials in a condensed state,
but lower than the vaporization temperature of the
coating composition formed in the reactor by the
decomposition and/or reaction of the one or more
coating source materials, whereby the decomposition
and/or reaction of the one or ~ore coating source
materials to form a coating composition will form a
coating film on the substrate surface.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The sole drawing is a flowsheet illustrating theprocess 9f the invention.
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DETAILED D~SCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The invention comprises a process for coating a sub-
strate surface in a heated fluidized bed reactor
with a coating composition formed from the decompo-
sition and/or vaporization and reaction of one ormore coating source materials introduced in con-
densed state into a heated fluidized bed reactor.
The fluidized ~ed is maintained at a temperature
higher than the decomposition and/or vaporization
and reaction temperature of the one or more coating
source materials, but lower than the vaporization
temperature of the resulting coating composition
formed in the reactor. The coating composition
formed in situ in the reactor from the decomposition
and/or vaporization and reaction of the coating
source material(s) will then form a coating film on
the substrate surface.
In the process of the in~ention, the fluidized bed
particles are not reactants, but serve to heat and
vaporize the incoming liquid or solid coating sourca
materials and, in a preferred embodi~ent, also act
as the substrate to be coated by the coating compo-
sition formed in situ in the fluidized bed.
In a related case filed by one o~ us, Sanjurjo U.S.
Patent Application Serial No. 07/Ç54,395, filed
F~bruary 8, 1991, as a continuation of Serial No.
07/333,180, filed on April 4, 1989, both assigned to
the assignee of this application, and cross-refer-
ence to which is hereby made, there is described theformation of powders or coatings in a fluidizad bed
,
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by reaction between metal reactants in particulata
form in the bed and ga~eous halogen-containing reac-
tants to form a metal powder or a metal coating on
a substrate or an intermediate reaction product
which then reacts with a third reactant in a second
zone in the bed to form either a powder of a metal
compound or a metal compound coating on a substrate.
I. The Fluidized Bed/Substrate
The fluidized bed used in the process of this inven-
tion, which does not comprise one of the reactants,
may be maintained in any conventional fluidized bed
reactor capable of being maintained within the de-
sired operating temperature range. The apparatus
may be continuous or batch type apparatus, although
the use of a batch type apparatus may be preferred
to ensure uniform coating film thickness on all of
the fluidized bed particles.
The particles making up the fluidized bed may com-
prise any type of material which is (a) chemically
inert to reaction with the coating source materials,
decomposition product(s), and/or coating co~position
formed therefrom in the reactor (i.e., the ~luidized
bed particle material is not a reactant); and (b) of
any size and density which will permit the particles
to be fluidized under the pressure, flow rate, or
any other fluidizing conditions employed in tha
reactor, as will be discu~sed below.
In the preferred embodiment, wherein the fluidized
bed particles comprise the substrate surface to be
coated with the coating material, which will be
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formed in the reactor by the decomposition and/or
reaction o~ the one or more coating source material
to be ~ed into the reactor, the fluidized bed par-
ticles must further comprise a material capable of
being 50 coated.
The ~luidized bed particles may be solid (non-
porous) or may comprise a low density porous materi-
als, for example, having a density as low as 0.2
gramtcm3 and a surface area as high as 1000 m2/gram.
Most pre~erably, the fluidized bed particles range
in size from about 1-2 microns up to about 2000
microns, although larger size particles may be used
provided that they are capable of being fluidized in
the reactor under the fluidizing conditions em-
ployed, as will be discussed below.
Examples of materials which may comprise the fluid-
ized bed particles to be coated in the bed include
glass spherest including micro glass spheres having
a particle size ranging from about 20 to about 30
microns; mica flakes ranging in size (longestdimension) from about 1 to about 30 microns; and
nickel and copper particles, including nickel and
coppex particles having a particle size ranging from
about 1 to about 50 microns. Examples of other
materials which may comprise the fluidized particles
capable of being coated, in accordance with the
process of the invention, includa alumina, titania,
silica, iron, chromia, barium titanate (BaTiO3) and
other piezo-electric materials, and ferrites.
In the preferred embodiment, the fluidized bed
particles function both as a substrata to be coated
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by the coating material to be formed in situ in the
fluidized bed, and as a heat source to quickly heat
the coating source material so that it will decom-
pose, react, or decompose and react to form the
desired coating ~ilm on the ~luidized bed particle
surface. The fluidized bed particle may also act as
catalytic substrate or surface to promote the de-
composition andtor reaction of the coating source
material(s) in the bed. However, it should again be
emphasized that the fluidized bed material does not
act as a reactant in any chemical reactions taking
place in the bed.
While the particles comprising the fluidized bed
preferably also comprise the substrate on which the
coating film will deposit, it is within the scope of
~he invention to also mount or suspend in the fluid-
ized bed another substrate [i.e., a substrate not in
particulate form) to be ~oated by thQ coating compo-
sition being formed in situ in the r2actor. In such
an instance, the fluidized particles merely act as
a heating medium and may possibly comprise a mater-
ial to which the coating composition will not ad-
here, e.g., teflon balls.
The fluidizing medium u~ed to fluidize the bed may
comprise any gaseous medium which is inert to or
non-reactive with the coating source material being
fed into the reactor in condensed form. Preferably,
th~ gas~ous fluidizing medium is also non-reactive
with the decomposition product or products or reac-
tion product formed in the reactor from the coatingsource material. Other fluidi7.ing means may also be
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employed such as, for example, vibratory means, mag-
netic means, ultrasonic means, etc.
Examples of fluidizing gases which will ~e non-
reactive with virtually all of the coating source
materials or decomposition and/or reaction products
formed therefrom include inert gases such as argon,
neon, and helium. In some cases, other gases such
as nitrogen, hydrogen, and even oxygen may be used
provided that the gases are inert to the particular
reactions and materials being used or formed, except
as will be discussed below.
II. Physical Parametexs of Fluidized Bed
The flow rate of the fluidizing gas flowing through
the bed may vary, depending upon the density, size
1~ and shape of th~ particle, as well as the tempera
ture and pressure of the gas. Usually a linear flow
rate of from about 5 to about 10 centimeters/second
will b~ employed.
The ~eight of the fluidiæ~d bed may ~ary consider-
ably, but must be sufficiently high, with respect to
the ~low rate through the reactor, to permit the
necessary minimum residence time of the at least one
liguid or solid coating source material to vaporize
and decompose and/or react to form the desired
coating composition on the substrate. Typically,
the decomposition and/or vaporization and reaction
will occur within a 10 cm. bed height.
The fluidized bed may be heated by any conventional
means such as preheating the fluidizing gas before
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it enters the fluidizad bed reactor or by internal
heating coils within the reactor, external heating
coils around the outside of the reactor walls, or by
electromagnetic means such as rf, microwave, etc.
S With the exception of the case wherein a single
coating source material decomposes to directly form
the desired coating composition, the temperature
within the reactor is maintained sufficiently high
to vaporize the incoming solid or liquid coating
source material, and to permit formation of the
coating composition by decomposition and/or reaction
of the vaporized coating source material to form the
desired coating composition which will coat the sub-
strate in the reactor.
It should be noted that in ~ome instances wherein a
reaction takes place to form the coating composition
and the reaction is exothermic, the actual reaction
temperature will be higher than the bed temperature,
but even in such instances the bed ~emperature must
be sufficiently high to permit initiation of the
exothermic reaction.
However, the temperature within the fluidized bed
must be lower than the melting point, sublimation
temperature, or decomposition temperature of the
resulting coating composition which is formed in
situ in the fluidized bed and whic~ forms a coating
film on the substrate in the reactor.
The pressure within the fluidized bed reactor will
advantageously be only slightly a~ove ambient to
permit sufficient fluidization of thP bed by the
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incoming gas pressure. However, pressures ranging
from as little as 1 Torr to as much as 1500 Torr,
preferably from about 100 Torr to about 1100 Torr,
and most preferably from about ~00 Torr to about 800
Torr, may be utilized in the reactor.
III. Coating Source Material
The coating source material or materials to be in-
troduced into the fluidized bed in condensed form
may comprise any compound or material, whether
metallic, nonmetallic, organic or inorganic which,
usually after vaporizing, will form a coating
material in the fluidized bed reactor by decomposi-
tion, reaction with another coating source material,
or a combination of both decompo5ition and reaction.
For example, any chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
sources, such as organometallics and volatile metal
halides, may be employed.
While as stated above, the coating source materiaI
should be introduced into the fluidized bed reactor
in condensed form, in one embodiment, where two or
more coating source materials are introduced into
the fluidized bed reactor, one or more of these
coating source materials may be in a gaseous state,
provi~ed, however, that at least one other of the
coating source materials is in a condensed state.
For exa~ple, ammonia gas may comprise a gaseous
coating source material when liquid titanium tetra-
chloride (TiC14) is introduced into the fluidized
bed reactor to react together to form a titanium
nitride coating composition. Also, by way of
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example, oxygen gas may be used as a coating source
material to oxidize a metal coating composition
formed by decomposition of a coating source material
introduced into the ~luidized bed in a condensed
states, e.g., an organoaluminum compound which
decomposes to form aluminum which is then oxidized
to form an alumina coating composition. Other
gaseous coating source materials which may be used
in combination with coating source materials in a
condensed state include h~drogen; alkanes such as
methane, ethane, propanes, and butanes; boranes;
hydrogen sulfide; and nitrogen.
In some instances, where such a gaseous coating
source materials is used, it ma~ be desira~le to
conduct the process in a sequential manner in which
the one or more coating source materials in con-
densed form are introduced into the reactor to form
a coating precursor and then the flow of the gaseous
coating source material is commenced to, for exam-
ple, oxidize the coating precursor already formed asa coating film on the substrate. This sequential
addition may be repeated one or more times to pro-
vide a cyclic or pulsating process.
Even in such situations, however, the process of the
invention is characterized from the prior art in
that the coating source material which is difficult
to transport in a vaporizPd state to the fluidized
bed reactor, e.g., an organometallic coating source
material, is transported to and introduced into the
fluidized bed in a condensed state. However, it
must be emphasized, that in the preferred embodiment
of the process of the inventlon, all of the coating
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source materials will be introduced into the fluid-
ized bed reactor in a condensed state.
By use of the term "decomposition" is meant any
change in the state of an element, compound or
material, including disproportionation, or a change
which results in the formation of a coating materi-
al; or which results in the formation of a decompo-
sition product which is a reactant capable of
reacting with another coating source material or
decomposition product thereof to f9rm a coating
material.
The expression "chemical reaction", as used herein,
is intended to define a reaction between a decompo-
sition product of a coating source material and an-
other coating source material reactant; a reactionbetween two coating source material reactants; or a
reaction between decomposition products of two dif-
ferent coating source materials (as opposed to the
decomposition or disproportionation of a si~gle
2Q coating source material~.
The co ting source material is fed into the fluid-
ized bed reactor in condensed form, either as a
solid or a liquid. When the coating source material
is in the form of a solid, it is preferably in
particulate form to provide a large surface contact
area whereby the solid coating source material may
be quicXly heated and thereby volatilized and/or
decomposed. When in particulate form, the particles
may comprise any size which will permit them to
intersperse with the fluidized bed particles to
thereby provide a homogeneous concentration of the
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volatilizing or decomposing coating source material
throughout the bed.
While there is no limit on the particle size of the
coating source material, except as stated above, in
practicality, the size of the particles will rarely
exceed about 1/4" in diameter to avoid the use of
excessive pressures or flow rates of fluidizing gas
passing through the bed.
When introduced into the reactor in liquid ~orm, the
coating source material may be introduced as a
stream, as droplets, or as a spray or aerosol. It
is also possible to impregnate the liquid coating
source material into a porous particle which may
comprise either a second coating source material or
a non-reactive fluidized bed particle, and then fed
this impregnated particle into the fluidized b~d.
When the coating source material is to be introduced
into the fluidized bed as a liquid, it may comprise
a molten solid mat~rial or a solid material which
has been dissolved in an appropriate ~olvent. Such
solvents may also comprise coating so~rce materials
or ~ay merely volatilize in the reactor and be
carried off by the flow of fluidizing gases.
Whether introducad into the reactor in either solid
or liquid form, the coating source material may be
introduced into the top, side, or bottom o~ the
fluidized bed reactor, but is preferably introduced
through the top o~ the reactor.
In the preferred embodiment, the coating source
material must be capable of being transported to the
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reactor in a solid ox liquid state, and (except for
the special case where a single coating source
material decomposes to directly form the desired
coating material without vaporizing) must be capable
of being converted into a gaseous state, upon being
introduced into the fluidized bed reactor and heated
to khe minimum temperature of the fluidized bed as
discussed above. This includes (a) the case of a
solid or liquid coating source material which is
vaporized in the bed to form a reactant which will
then react with another vaporized coating source
material reactant in the fluidized bed to form the
desired coatiny composition; (b) a coating source
material which decomposes or disproportionates into
a vaporized reactant which reacts with another
vaporized coating source material reactant to form
the desired coating composition; or (c~ a coating
source material which decomposes or disproportion-
ates into a vapoxized reactant which reacts with
another vaporized reactant formed by the decomposi-
tion ox disproportionation of another coating source
material.
The following equations will be helpful in illus-
trating the various cases wher~in the coating
material will r~spectfully comprise: (1) a solid
decomposition product ~rom a single coating source
material (i.e., the decompositio~ product is the
desired coating material); (2) a reaction product
of first and second coating source material reac-
tants; ~3) a reaction product of a decompositionproduct of a first co~ting source material and
another reactant comprising a second coating source
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material; and (4) a reaction product of two decom-
position products respectively from first and second
coating source materials introduced into the fluid-
ized bed and decomposed.
What, however, is common in all cases shown in the
following equations is that each coating source
material (~he material or compound on the left side
of the equation) is introduced into the fluidized
reactor in a condensed form; each coating source
material vaporizes or decomposes at the temperature
of the fluidized bed; and a new coating material is
formed which is not in ~ vaporized state at the
temperature of the f luidized bed. As will also be
seen in some of the equations below, a further
requirement, in those cases where there will be
other reaction products, is that any such other
reaction products or by products be in a vapor state
- so that they will not interfere with the desired
coating of the particles. Such other reaction
products, which should be in a vaporizable state,
are shown in the e~uations below followed by a
vertical arrow which indicates that such reactant or
reaction product is not the desired coating materi-
al, but is in gaseous form and will be removed from
the bed in the flow of fluidizing gases.
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DECOMPOSITION ONLY
(1) AB ~ > A + Bt or At ~ B
REACTION ONLY
(2) A + B -----> AB
5DECOMPOSITION AND REACTION
(3) AB + C ---~-> ~C + Bt or BC +
or
(4a) AB ~ CD -----> AC + Bt + Dt or AC + BDt
or
54b) ~B + CD -- --> BD + At + Ct or BD ~ ACt
Examples of decomposable coating source materials
which it into the equation 1 category include
organo~metallic compounds such as trisobutyaluminum,
which decomposes at about 300 C to form an alu~inum
coating material which has a melting point of a~out
660-C; nickel "resinate" which decomposes at about
600-C to form a nickel coating which has a melting
point of 1455 C; and nickel acetyl acetonate which
decomposes below about 500C to also form a nickel
coating material.
Other examples of decomposable organic coating
source materials fitting into the equation 1 catego-
ry include lanthanum hexafluoro acetyl acetonate,
which decomposes at about 600C to form lanthanum
fluoride, which has a melting point of about 1400'C;
diethyl gallium azide, which decomposes at 350-450 C
to form gallium nitride~ which sublimes at ~bout
800-C; aluminum acetyl acetonate, which decomposes
at about 550 C to form alumina (~.P. 2050 C); and
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zirconium ~-diketonate, which decomposes at about
400 C to form zirconia (M.P. -2700-C).
Inorganic coating source materials fitting into ~he
equation 1 category which decompose to form a
coating compound include: nicXel nitrate (Ni(No3)2),
which decomposes at 260 C to form a nickel oxide
coating composition which has a melting temperature
of 1984~C; borazine (B3N3H3), which decomposes at
about 1000 C to fo~m BN, a coating composition which
has a sublimation temperature of about 3000'C; and
tribromosilane which decomposes at about 900 C to
form a silicon coating composition which has a
melting temperature of about 1410-C.
An example of a mixture of reactant coating source
materials which fit into the equation 2 category is
a liquid mixture of titanium tetrachloride and water
coating source materials, which react with one
another at 600 C to form a titanium oxide coating
composition which melts at 1750-Co
~n example of a mixture of coating source materials,
one of which decomposes into one or more decomposi-
kion products, which will react with ~he other
coating source material in the mixture f~d into ~he
fluidized bed, as in equation 3 above, is a mi~ture
of trisobutyl al~minum and sulfur, wherein the
trisobutyl aluminum decomposes at 300-C to provide
aluminum as a decomposition product/reactant whioh
then reacts with the sulfur reactant at this temper-
ature, to form an aluminum sulfide coating composi-
tion with a melting point of llOO~C.
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An example of a mixture of coating source materials,
each of which decompose into one or more decomposi-
tion products, which will react with each other when
the coating source materials are decomposed in the
fluidized bed, as in equations 4a or 4b above,
include a mixture of trimethyl antimony and tri-
methyl gallium which both respectively vaporize at
about 25 C and decompose at about 600 C to resp~c-
tively form antimony and gallium, which react with
one another to form yallium antimonide, having a
melting point of about 900-C.
The following examples will sexve to further illus-
trate the process of the invention.
Example I
A 0.5 liter fluidized bed of micro glass spheres,
having an average diameter ranging from 20 to 30
microns, and an average depth of about 8 cmO, was
for~ed in a fluidized ~ed reactor by pas ing argon
gas through the reactor at a linear ~low rate of 1
cm./sec (60 cc/sec flow). The bed was maintained at
- an average temperature of at laast about 300-C, but
less than 450-C by heating the reactor walls with an
ex*ernal heater. Liquid trisobutyl-aluminum was
injected dropwise into the top of the fluidized bed
at a rat~ of 0.01 cc/sec where it decomposed to form
an aluminum coating on the glass spheres. After
about ZO minutes, the flow of trisobutyl-al~min~m
was stopped, the heater was shut o~f, and the flow
of ~luidizing gas was then shut off after the
reactor had cooled to room temperat~re. The coated
glass spheres were removed from the reactor and
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examined. The previously white in appearance glass
spheres were found to have a silvery gray appear-
ance, indicating the presence of a deposited alumi-
num coating thereon.
The process was repeated using 1-30 micron in length
mica flakes, and ~10 micron nickel particles,
resulting in the formation, in each case, of a
uniform aluminum coating on the mica flake or nickel
particle substrate. When a flow of either oxygen or
water vapor was subsequently flowed through the
reactor at a flow rate of about 100 cc/min, a
coating of aluminu~ oxide (AlaO3) was formed on the
surface of the respective substrates. In both the
cases of the aluminum-coated mica flakes and the
aluminum-coated nickel particles, the coating was
examined by Auger electron spectroscopy, optical
microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
and found to be satisfactory.
Example II
A 0.5 liter fluidized bed o~ graphite particles
ha~ing an average particle size of about ~30 mi-
crons, and an average bed depth of about 5 om., was
for~ed in a fluidized bed reactor by passing a
fluidizing gas mixture of 90 vol. ~ argon/10 vol. ~
hydrogen gas through the reactor at a linear flow
rate o~ 5-8 cm./sec. The bed was maintained at an
average temperature of at least 600 C, but less than
700'C by rf heating. Nickel acetyl acetonate was
premixed with the graphite particles before the
particles were loaded into the bed, fluidized, and
heated. The nickel acetyl acetonate decomposed in
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the fluidized bed to form a nickel/nickel oxide
coating on the graphite particles. After 30 min-
utes, the heater was shut off, and the flow of
fluidizing gas was then subsequently shut off after
S the reactor cooled to room temperature. The coated
graphite particles were removed from the reactor and
visually examined~ The particles were found to be
coated with a ~ilvery gray nickel/nickel oxide
mixture. By substituting an aqueous solution o~ a
mixture sf nickel chloride and nickel nitrate
(Ni(No3)2) for the nickel acetyl acetonate, a coating
o~ nickel oxide was formed on the graphite parti-
cles.
Example III
A coating of a YBa2Cu3~ superconductor on a silver
substrate can be formed by thoroughly mixing togeth~
er 1 mole of yttrium ~-diketo~ate powder, 2 moles of
barium ~-diketonate powder, and 3 moles of copper ~-
diketonate and feeding the powder mixture into a
fluidized bed reactor containing ~-100 micron
diameter silver partisles maintained at a tempera-
ture of at least about 600-C, but less than about
909 C, while flowing a fluidizing gas such as argon
through the ~luidized bed. The fluidiz~d eilver
particles will comprise the substrate on ~hich the
YBa2Cu307 superconductor will form. Pre~erably,
oxygen, at a partial pressure of from about 0.1 ko
about 0.3 atmospheres, and N02, at a partial pres-
- sure of from about 0.1 to about 0.05 atmospheres,
can be added to the fluidizing gas durin~ the
reaction for superior results.
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Thus, the invention comprises an improved method for
forming a coating film on a substrate in a fluidized
bed formed ~rom one or more coating source ~aterials
transported to and introduced into a heated ~luid-
ized bed reactor wherein the coating source materi-
als are vaporized and decompose and/or react to form
a coating material which will form a solid coating
film on the substrate at the temperat~re maintained
in the fluidized bed reactor.
Having thus described the invention what is claimed
is:
